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 St Mary, High Hesket
sundial, High Hesket
site name:-   St Mary's Church
locality:-   High Hesket
civil parish:-   Hesket (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   sundial
coordinates:-   NY47594445
1Km square:-   NY4744
10Km square:-   NY44


photograph
BTM87.jpg (taken 3.9.2010)  
The old sundial was too far gone to be repaired, so a replacement has been made.
"Time is on the wing
And the moments of life
Are too precious to be
Squandered away in trifles"
"Oh what is human life?
How like this tardy dial's moving shade!
Day after day slides from us unperceived!
Yea, soon man's hour is up - and we are gone"

notes:-  
Cumbrian Sundials database, R Sylvester, 29.5.2008:-
"High Hesket / Stored in church porch / Two mottoes on plaques"
made 1719
British Sundial Society reference number 1006

notes:-  
Cumbrian Sundials database, R Sylvester, 29.5.2008:-
"High Hesket / Replacement for the above / Two mottoes on plaques"
made 2005
British Sundial Society reference number

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